Tag Archives: before and after

Don’t Let Your Hardscapes Be Devoured

Have you ever removed overgrown plantings and gained back valuable space on a driveway or patio?  Or maybe you cleared a walkway so that two people can now walk side by side instead of single file. These overgrown hardscapes are quite common with 25 year old plantings.  But when this happens on newer landscapes something is seriously [...]

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How To Prune Climbing Hydrangea

Climbing Hydrangea is a beautiful and useful climber, but it can get crazy on you if you let it. It is deciduous, but considered a 4 season plant mainly because: It has lush dark green leaves. It flowers white in early summer. It has bright yellow fall color and cinnamon colored exfoliating bark. As you [...]

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Pool Cabana Transformation

This simple pool cabana and rectangular inground swimming pool were on the property when the new homeowner moved in. As part of the overall renovation the cabana would get a facelift with not only interior improvements, but an exterior redesign that echoed some of the architectural elements of the home. The inside became a one [...]

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Landscape Design for All Views – RB Project #4.4

A Key Landscape Design Principle With landscape design you must appreciate that your composition will most likely be seen from multiple viewing points. Landscapes are part of our lives – we live in and around them.  It’s a three dimensional, dynamic experience.  The same could be said for architectural and engineering design – close partners [...]

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